【推荐1】I fell in love with Yosemite National Park the first time I saw it. My parents took us there for camping. On the way out, I asked them to wait while I ran up to El Capitain, a_________rock of 3,300 feet straight up. I touched that giant rock and knew_________I wanted to climb it. That has been my life’s passion(热爱) ever since—_________the rocks and mountains of Yosemite. I’ve long made Yosemite my_________.

About 15 years ago I started seeing a lot of_________, like beer cans, empty boxes, around the area. It’s beyond me why visitors started respecting the place_________and treated such a beautiful home-like place this way.

I tried_________trash(垃圾) myself, but the job was too big. I would_________an hour or two on the job, only to find the area trashed all over again weeks later. Finally, I got so tired of it that I decided something had to change.

In 2004, together with some climbers, I set a date for a_________. On that day, more than 300 people__________. Over three days we collected about 6,000 pounds of trash. It was amazing how much we were able to__________. I couldn’t believe the__________we made—the park looked clean!

Each year volunteers come for the cleanup from everywhere. In 2007 alone, 2,945 people picked up 42,330 pounds of trash.

I often hear people__________about their surroundings. If you are one of them, I would say the only way to change things is by__________rather than complaining. We need to teach by__________.

【推荐1】Paen Long has had a dream ever since he saw a plane for the first time at the age of six. His dream was to _______ a plane. Last year, the 30-year-old man started building his plane _______. “I was afraid that people would _______ me, so sometimes I worked at night,” he said. It was a long time _______ he put his dream into practice. Paen Long tried to build his own plane, using the money he had _______ from running his own garage. He has spent three years _______ YouTube videos in order to learn how to make a plane.

It took him a year to build his plane, using mostly recycled materials. The plane’s first _______ came at 3 pm on 8th, March. Local villagers gathered excitedly to watch the plane fly. _______, the plane only got 50m in the air before crashing to the ground. “When all people were looking at me, I felt very _______,” he said.

Although the first try failed, Paen Long remains ________. His next project is to build a seaplane. Paen Long thinks the plane will cost over $10,000. “I never feel ________ for spending all my money building a plane,’’ he said.

His wife, Hing Muoyheng, ________ about her husband, especially as they have two young sons. However, she has no ________. “I don’t know how planes work and he doesn’t have any ________ to help him. He can only search for information by himself,” she said. “I tried to ask him to stop a few times because I was afraid, but he said he wouldn’t ________, so I have to support his dream.”

【推荐2】As an only child, Hazel often felt lonely in her youth. But that all _______ when she turned 10. For her birthday, Hazel’s grandmother surprised her with a lovely puppy, Chloe. From the very start, the two had been _______. But when Hazel was 14, her father got a new job so that he’d be working from home, along with a cruel _______: The house needed to be _______ of any disturbance (干扰) .

With no easier _______, the family sent Chloe to a humane society. Though they expected that the dog would be lucky enough to find a _______ new home, they couldn’t know for sure. She regularly _______ the humane society, trying to find out if Chloe had got used to her new life. However, there was no _______.

In time, Hazel grew up, got married, and had a child of her own. One day, she _______ to see a post online about a senior dog that was in need of a new home. She looked ________ like Chloe — she was even named Chloe. Hazel decided to ________ to adopt (领养) the dog at once.

When Hazel met Chloe in person, an unbelievable feeling ________ her. The dog seemed so familiar (熟悉的) to Hazel, and she appeared to feel the same way about Hazel. She ran up to Hazel and started licking (舔) her face. Seeing Chloe, Hazel remembered so much of her previous Chloe that she can’t ________ crying. Anyway, Hazel was ________ to have the new Chloe back. As for Chloe, Hazel said, “I know that I’ll keep her ________ for her rest life this time.”

【推荐3】Two years ago, my friend and I were at college. With his birthday quickly approaching, he came to me with an unusual _________: instead of receiving presents, he wanted to do some acts of kindness.

I was _________ for such an idea. Giving instead of taking for the birthday was really difficult. I asked him how he could come up with such a _________ idea. He told me about a TED talk he had watched on generosity, which had inspired him. So we started to _________ creative things we could do.

Our university employed some security guards to _________ its students. They have to work _________, keeping watch on every corner throughout the university. For the most part it’s a thankless job as most people grow _________ to seeing the guards all around and eventually barely notice their _________, let alone acknowledge their efforts. How could we show them our appreciation?

We decided to make a large pot of hot _________. We hired a Uber and asked the driver to take us around the campus where we knew the __________ would be and we poured them each a cup of hot chocolate. The Uber driver was __________ a bit doubtful to the entire plan but after a while he was helping us __________ the guards and our lively spirit had __________ to him as well. We were met with many __________ and appreciative words. It was amazing to see how a __________ act or even intention of generosity can lift everyone’s spirit.

【推荐2】For me personally, I could write for days about many different situations where adversity _________ my life. Now let me tell you one experience where I almost let adversity_________.

We had a glass studio. A couple of years ago we experienced a(n) _________ winter; there was a lot of snow and ice. The _________ of the ice and snow _________ the roof of our studio, taking with it one of our sources of income. _________ it did fall down, we got on the roof and tried to _________ the snow and ice, but when you have 5 feet of ice and temperatures of minus 20 Celsius, it was pretty _________ to do.

The roof came down. We had moved a lot of our goods and tools from the studio _________ we lost a lot also: glass, kilns, workbenches, to name only a few of the items. It was a disastrous experience.

We could simply say that we could no longer __________ our glass business. Let me tell you that this was certainly a thought that __________ our mind, but we didn’t have it happen.

We had a large barn that we were not using. So we renovated (翻新) the barn, __________ our working area and today we have a __________ studio than we previously had. If the adversity we were __________ had not happened, we probably would __________ be working in the old studio, a studio that was less efficient.